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Okay...It's starting to go up. [I'm slowly adding images :) ] {Usual warning about 400K images...} I've put up the cover and a few inner pages, and hope to get the rest up tomorrow night and over the weekend. [it's taking too long to upload at the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks Ben (I'd almost given up on you!) From the contents page: "Lego Mindstorms offers boys the ultimate programming challenge" "Football - Now boys can create their own football match" What? You (Lego) mean that I can't get a Mindstorms set (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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So far it looks good. I will have to keep my eye out for one of these catalogs when they appear here in the west. One thing that I did notice was that there is a picture of what looks like lego rock raiders(?) for the game boy color. I didnt know (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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"Deidre Rushton Brumby" <drb@tasmail.com> wrote in message news:Fz2zsD.Isp@lugnet.com... (...) company (...) Okay, I think that this isn't sexist at all. It's just a case of directed marketing, where the manufacturer pitches the sale towards the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) <snipped> I think we may have to agree to disagree on this :) Though I shan't form further opinions until I've seen the rest of the catalog, at the point I was looking last night there were only the first 3 or so pages. The programming (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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HEAR HEAR!!!!!! I couldn't agree more Dierdre, this is the kind of thing that really gets my hackles up. Put it this way, if Mindstorms is perhaps the kind of thing that parents would usually not consider for a girl ( speaking of the "average" (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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Hi Benjamin, having seen the AUS version now, I think it's basically the same 2000.2 catalogue as the german [-European?] one, but there are also a couple of differences however. Nearly on every page you will find something which is slightly (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) I snipped a bunch of stuff for brevity, but I just wanted to say that I had a peek at the catalogue before Deidre even posted yesterday, and I saw the line about how boys could play with the soccer- err, I mean, football sets, and it (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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Okay...I'm currently uploading the rest of the catalogue. [I've only just finished scanning it.] Depending on how long it takes, it may or may not be finished this morning. [It's 12:45 ] I'll post a message when I finishh for the night, along with (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, after their intermediate catalogue down here: (URL) wasn't expecting anything great from them. Also, if you look at the green box on page 16, it's talking about GIRLS and starting to use PRIMO...Absolutely no mention of boys. Benjamin (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) Okay..after quite a few uploading problems, the catalogue is roughly half there. I'll hopefully have the other half up by tomorrow [it's 3 AM saturday, so that should give me a bit extra time] night, and will post a message when complete...my (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yep, there possibly would be a few different sets to what's in the German catalogue. However, we don't necessarily get all the sets shown in this, and we don't have any SCALA or ZNAP sets down here either [or service packs as shown in the (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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Ben, that fortunecity link is broken. What's with fortunecity anyway? Am I the only one who keeps running into broken links on fortunecity? Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde Benjamin Whytcross <b_whytcross@hotmail.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) (URL) that, the L had been carried off to the next line. JP (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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Doh. Thanks. I think my cold will be carrying me off to bed soon. :o) Thank god modems can't carry biological viruses over the internet. Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde James Powell <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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I've finally got the scans uploaded, most likely after everyone has got a copy of the catalogue for themselves :( Anyway, all my catalogue scans [3 at present] can be found at: (URL) Whytcross b_whytcross@hotmail.com bwhytcro@pacificaccess.com.au (...) (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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